How to host cloud?

[Niruvius]

I have loads of unused hhd's "most given to me as dead from friends and coworkers and i was able to get them working (example one had broken spining mehanism other one disc so i made one out of them) i' am using around 15tb for my self but i have crap load more and would like to make open cloud for my self and friends but have no idea how to (i' am good in fixing hardware but have very limited software experience).

 

[BFG-9000]

If you are just trying to create storage that can be accessed over the internet, then the main problem is your ISP will detect the HTTP traffic as you hosting a web server and demand to be paid for it. It may be less expensive to just pay for cloud storage if your needs cannot be handled with free services (for example Google Drive offers 15GB free).

It does seem like most ISPs don't care about FTP traffic though so you could create a FTP server. Many router softwares include one but those are mostly intended for a single USB attached disk and it sounds like you have a lot of disks.

All you need is a spare PC you can leave on and fill it with disks (may need adapter cards for more SATA ports). FileZilla is a free FTP server software for Windows. The clients don't necessarily need to use any software besides a browser to access files on the server.